Mudd Letters Opened To Public: Van Dam Jurors Continue to Mull and Ponder Westerfield's Fate! 8-15

Union Trib ^ | August 15, 2002 | Union Trib

[fatima]

I can't beleive I slept throug 666 and other people wanted it so bad.Thanks for the laugh on a hot day,the newly weds bought a waterbed but soon they began drifting apart.

[the Deejay]

Besides, we don't know if the blood on the jacket was
a smear, drop or splatter, do we? Because LE did not
take a good closeup photo of it, and used a lousy Polaroid
to do so. They just cut it out and disected it.

[nycgal]

SO write their company and complain

I think KFI likes what they're doing and is encouraging it.

[small_l_libertarian]

Here's an interesting blast from the past. From Feldman's cross-exam of Det. Collins (the detective originally in charge of the investigation) from the Preliminary Hearing:

19 Q MAYBE I WASN'T CLEAR. WHAT I'M ASKING YOU

20 TO DO IS DEFINE FOR ME WHAT YOU MEANT TO COMMUNICATE

21 WHEN YOU DEFINED THE CONDITION AS, QUOTE, "ADVANCED

22 STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION," END QUOTE. THAT'S WHAT I'M

23 ASKING.

24 A A LOT OF THE BODY TISSUE WAS GONE. THERE

25 WAS DECOMPOSITION. THE DARK COLOR. THE ACTIVITY OF

26 SOME INSECTS AROUND HER FACE.

27 Q DO YOU RECALL WHAT KIND OF INSECTS?

28 A MAGGOTS.

[alisasny]

you were 666

[nycgal]

I heard on FoxNews a little while ago that Greta will have someone on her show tonight discussing how/why DW might be found not guilty.

[the Deejay]

Beware of those news soundbites & teasers!

[Yeti]

You're probably right about the shortness of the time to have the testing done on the defense's side; however, in this case the defendant can't blame anyone else for that because he was the one that insisted on a speedy trial.

No, remember Shen saying in twnty days she didn't have enough time to compare some fibers. She did nothing for twenty days after looking at the fibers under the microscope. And the defense didn't even get access to most of the evidence until the trial was under way. It is a prosecution stall strategy.

But regarding the speedy trial, once defense realizes LE is falsifying evidence, every day that passes is another day that prosecution can use to fabricate or destroy evidence as necessary, and get their story straight, and eliminate inconsitencies. Once the evidence is disclosed, it is frozen, and they can't alter it anymore because it is a matter of public record.

[UCANSEE2]

I have heard that DNA can be gotten from teeth...maybe this is why there are missing teeth.

BOY. Did you ever RING A BELL!

How simple it would be to keep a TOOTH in the ole pocket,and then take it out when you need it and rub it on an area.

That spot on DW's jacket was probably just another on of the spots he left of his own blood. Someone rubbed a tooth on it real quickly and BINGO!~ Danielle's DNA. No one would even know!

[nycgal]

Beware of those news soundbites & teasers!

I'm hoping someone's been reading these threads :-)

[UCANSEE2]

Blood on cuff of pj's....non reportable results...is this cuz the blood was swabbed off to place elsewhere??

Jaded is looking for where this info came from. Do you know/remember? I can't find it. I remember Feldman talking about Danielle having a scratch on her ankle and Doosuck Objecting quickly. And I don't remember when that was, even.

[the Deejay]

I've seen this on the Discovery Channel(?), but in
order to get the DNA extracted from a tooth, the tooth
has to be destroyed/ground down into a powder. Just
rubbing it onto something won't work.

[agarrett]

Okay, Drew. You win. Who said that?

  Sorry it took so long to get back to you - real life and all that... It was another obscure Babylon 5 reference - Ambassador Kosh in the episode "Believers."

  OK, OK, I'm a geek.

Drew Garrett

[Rheo]

It would show a major and minor contributor tho, wouldn't it?...like the beanbag DNA.

[UCANSEE2]

Also wonder if LEO didn't enter his house thru the unopened back door prior to him returning on 2/4.

Had to spread those orange fibers around, you know!

[domestice]

Yep he was & if he wouldn't have hiccupped, I think I'd
been 666......shucks!! :-)

[UCANSEE2]

It was in the cuff, right next the Qtip, and spare hairs and fiber.

And the tooth.

[UCANSEE2]

Any idea what Ott and Keyser make a year?

Up front, or on the side?

[Rheo]

Feldman was saying ankle in his closing.

The other testimony has been left cuff....they never did specify tho wrist or leg...so maybe it was the ankle.

If so, why didn't Feldman directly ask that of the tech?...and would it make a difference in the scheme of things?

Dusek was probably objecting to Misstates the Evidence..or just cuz he liked to hear Mudd agree with everything he said.

[the Deejay]

Did the vdams actually indentify the body, or did they just take the word of the DNA analysis?